From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:41:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912221238180.28241@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F030@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net>

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Nick Triantos wrote:

> I recently created a repo from SVN via git-svn.  The bare repo was 
> about ~600MB.  I cloned it, and on the clone, I added 2 small files 
> (.gitignore and .gitattributes) to a branch, merged them to master, 
> and pushed that back to the origin.  The cloned repo remains at about 
> 600MB, while my origin repo (the one from svn) is now about 2.4GB.  I 
> found that it created a file in objects/pack which accounts for this 
> huge size.
> 
> I've tried running 'git repack -a -d' but that didn't shrink the size 
> of this pack file.

This is rather weird.

Any chance the original repository could be downloaded somewhere in 
order to attempt reproducing this issue?


Nicolas